Coaching

How to Win Friends and Influence People (aka How to Not Be an Asshole)

Nearly all jobs could benefit from honing skills about how to influence people. Most of us have taken a personality profile, or perhaps a training course along with it. There’s DISC, Myers Briggs, Insights, Colour Code, etc. We often leave these training classes with this information at the forefront of our minds and think a little bit …

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Getting Lucky… All Its Cracked Up to Be?

A couple years ago I was working with sales manager with a bumpy and somewhat unreliable pipeline. We were discussing how to make his team’s forecast a bit more consistent. Mid-meeting he coolly replied ‘I’d rather have a lucky sales rep then a consistent one’. At another company, I don’t think it would be grossly exaggerating to …

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